In Gothenburg’s new quayside district and with more than 37,000 square meters, Kaj16 is one of largest hybrid structures in the world: the modular timber crown rests on a permeable concrete base that becomes an interwoven part of the city…
Subjected to an ambitious urban regeneration process, Unit 8 of the Qianwan area – with the National Museum of China – is bound to become Shenzhen’s epicenter of culture and art. In response to this transformative push, the project proposes a new cit
Right in the heart of the city, a building conceived as an infrastructure concentrating a number of different uses seeks to create a hub of activity on a local and a metropolitan level alike. Public programs are accommodated within a grid of screen s
Occupying the last stretch of open ground in the Étoile development zone, the Saint-Urbain block occupies a particular place in the city of Strasbourg. At once a major link between the downtown and the Neudorf neighborhood, at the regional level it h
Located on the square of the railway station of the Swiss municipality of Pratteln, this mixed-use building is the result of superposing two constructions differing in form and function: a podium and a tower. The expressivity achieved through the sup
Located in the heart of Berlin, the new headquarters of the National Metrology Institute of Germany harbors a very diverse program – including workshops, labs, storage and training rooms –, but on the outside it presents a highly compact and restrain
Google promotes the integration of the private lives and the work lives of all its employees within a huge mixed-use complex that fosters leisure, health, and interaction.
Located in the center of Rotterdam, the Timmerhuis is a new building for the city hall that accommodates services, offices, residential units, shops, and parking. Attached to another municipal building from 1953, the new building adjusts to its neigh
The Psychiatric Hospital in Helsingør, a port city in Denmark, is halfway between the suggestive forms generated by the new digital technologies and the rigorous geometries that characterize the more functional structures. In the research prior to th
The old Sarriá stadium, which was home to the Real Club Deportivo Espanyol, took up a chunk of land between the Diagonal and the beltway that delimits the Ensanche (gridded 19th-century urban enlargement). Its demolition and the reassignation of adja
The Roman practice Labics is the author of the Città del Sole urban regeneration project, which emptied some old bus depots next to Rome’s Tiburtina railway station and raised beside them a new building for mixed uses: offices, commercial spaces, res
In the optimistic and experimental climate of the sixties, the 1967 competition for a school and multipurpose building in the Welsh town of Newport allowed the newly founded Foster Associates to develop the umbrella concept in this maiden project whi
